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‘And I sold the customer ‘new’ pulleys’

I can see pressing the bearing out if it's a really new pulley that just happens to be noisy, but come on man the fucking pulley is like 12 bucks with a bearing. Doing shit like this is going to run customers off.

Always worth a new bearing or pulley. Getting stuck or needing a tow is worth the cost of 10 of these....

Cheaper for the home mechanic, but a shop will charge you an hourly rate to do that that'll cost more than just buying a new one.

Just replace the bearings, they are loud cos they are foooked

As a professional technician I am always tinkered with things like the pulley bearings. I tried this about 15 years ago and it worked amazing. Tried it again at least 10 more times throughout the years and every time the bearing failed within 30-100 miles after lubing them back up. I guess one saved bearing out of 11 is not too bad. What sucks is when a timing cover or component in the belt circuit gets ruined and then you are facing thousands of dollars in repairs for trying to save $20-$50... Definitely ruined some expensive stuff trying to save pulleys on those 10 more that I tried to lube and made worse instead.

That’s a good tip if you’re in a bind but you can get the belt and “component kit” that comes with that idler and in many cases it’s cheaper than buying the belt and tensioner (with pulley) and no idler. Later ✌️

Don't do this unless you can't afford to buy bearings this is at best a short-term fix. If the bearing can be pressed or driven out it can be matched and just the bearing replaced. If the pulley is plastic I recommend replacing the assembly, as the plastic can be gouged or split when you try to press the old one out. 37 years as a automotive mechanic has shown me you don't want to take chances with this. Failure of a pulley and the subsequent damage to the accessory drive when the belt is thrown is far more expensive than the bearings.

Just find the correct bearing and press the old one out and press in the new one and you're good to go except the plastic idlers that have the bearings molded in

This is a great way to do the job twice.

I would never take my cars to a mechanic like you 😂

I’m just going to buy a new one. I don’t want to get out on the road in the middle of nowhere and the bearing seize up!!

I've done that you can also knock the bearing out and replace it for less than half the price of a new pulley

Or just swap the bearing it's a common bearing used in pool motors it's a 6203d bearing. It's like 3 many 4 bucks

I used to do the same with skateboard wheel bearings when I was younger lol If the bearing is wobbly you can also find the same bearing for cheap, knock the old one out and replace it

Re replace the centre bearing and they are like $2 lol

Great way to have a pulley lock up and break your new belt👌🏻

When the ad says “Mechanic special”

I done this on a customers van to stop the noise whilst waiting for the new part and the fix lasted a day luckily his part had turned up

If the bearing is making noise and is dry. It's junk. No amount of grease will save it. Plus, if the pulley has been in service let's just say 100k miles It's probably worn out and junk also. Just change the whole damn pulley. There not that expensive and it's cheap Maintenance compared to calling a tow truck.

If they are loud, they are on the verge of being bad, if they aren't already. If they are already off, replace them.

Loud and proud. That's how we roll 🤘 but not feeling so proud when the car breaks down on the side of the road

new pulleys are like $7 to $20 each?? on Rockauto, why bother?

If it's already making noise, the only thing im doing with the bearing is replacing it.

Go to local Napa! They’ll have a metal encased bearing which meets the same F3 (fit, form, function) for like $7. Just replace the bearing if the pulley is in great shape.

I usually take the seals out with a pick and use white lithium grease . But I'll try red and tacky. Good tip

Tip: pry from the inner lip, if you damage the seal grease will stay inside.

Always cut towards yourself.

The 17 year olds guide to engine maintenance. Why not wait until the tensioner seizes up and shredds the belt completely and don't bother doing the water pump either 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks; I found the number from another KZfaq video. These are really common bearings and can be purchased locally from most automotive suppliers ie NAPA,Parts Source etc. Again I thank you for your excellent advice and commend you for some great insight!👍

I always do that first because they don't put enough grease in there to begin with. 😊

You can put a new bearing in them

I’ve definitely done this before when I was in college and so broke I was eating a steady diet of Top Ramen. 👍

Giving the customer a new reason to say, "but I seen on the internet....."

You don’t even know how to take the seal off bro...

Looks like an LS engine 🤔

Another option with the pulley you were showing is to just simply replace the bearing. I’ve done this on all my cars and the bearings are usually five to $10 at my local Bearing shop. I have a press but I usually just take a punch and hammer and knock the old one out and tap the new one in carefully.

Thanks Matt, what is the bearing #? Regrease or replace is the quick inexpensive fix. Nice to see someone actually rebuilding something instead of spending someone else’s money!

Will your next video cover "How to reuse a condom"? Honestly, just buy a new one bud, there not that expensive.

"tricks" new word for poor I guess

I'm glad you made a video about this .It works on a squeaky alternator to that back bearing is usually the one that squeak's.

I have been doing this for over 10 years. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. 👍

Been doing this for years. I have taken bearing that was frozen and made the workable enough to put them back to use if they were smooth running

This might be overkill on servicing bearings but I like to wash it them in an ultrasonic cleaner, blast out the water and any excessive grease with an air compresser, rinse in wd40, and blast away any residual wd40 with the air compressor. This will give a virgin bearing but at least when packing grease, you won't have dirt and old grease contaminating the new bearing. Good video and great info!👍

I'm having belt noise right now. Definitely looks worth doing 👌

"If you dont want to spend alot of money" - famous last words..

Absolutely 100% right! Plus you change knock those bearings out and replace them alone on the cheap too, really common and widely used bearings

I usually knock the bearing out and replace it keeping the original pulley. Nice tip .

Glad you talked about it before I did cuz I was about to go off

For year i had issues with noisy pullies on my 04 2.4 frontier....so after seeing a similar video about added grease...i decided to buy new one and see how much grease is in there to start....there is a dab of white grease barely covering the bearings..i added some red wheel bearing grease and have had no issue since. So add grease to the new ones...will surely last a long time...

This goes in the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" bin.

You didn't put the pulley back on so we can see half a story has never been told you just wasted 30 seconds of my life and I will never ever get back again good day sir lol

Been there, done that. I also keep a stack of 6203 bearings in the shop.

Every skaterboarder knew this, nice one

Everyone likes being cheap until it leaves them stranded on the side of the road. Replace it and be done with it

Love the fact that you're not wearing gloves..

It's good that you're sharing this but I think a little like you and I've been doing that for a while on my own vehicles.

Wow! Now you can drive another 100 miles quiet!

Only temporary because the races and rolling elements have tiny chips and the added grease only cushions for a short time. You can get by a little longer if you take off both seals and wash out the old grease and all the tiny metal fragments before regreasing.

It’s like a skate bearing. Quick clean and grease and fast af boi

Next you’ll tell us to flip the serpentine belt over to get more miles out of the other unused side lol.

I usually just use my Redz Bones skate bearing lube on em if they are in good shape. It does the trick and I haven’t had any complaints about it either

These things comes together in a kit when you doing timing belt replacement.

Heck yea it works sometimes it can get you by for a long time then sometimes its just temporary fix depends also I drill and tap for grease fittings on my sealed wheel bearings that I had been replacing once a year or so after I did that I grease them about every 3 months or so and I have not had to replace them like that anymore I works

This worked on 1999 Chevy Vortec 5.7 V8. Thank You for video. I love the internet. You are fulfilling 2nd greatest commandment to love your neighbor. Hope you get extra points in Heaven.

Great tip. I also like to save money, so when i rebuild engines i rub JB weld on the main bearings to resurface them instead of buying new ones

I usually replace the bearings,and also I replace the bearings in spindle assemblys that are used in zero turn mower decks,a gravely spindle usually costs around 200$/spindle and there a 3 on a deck and I can rebuild them for around 20$/ spindle just parts

Maybe if it last longer than a new one because the grease is better but I don't think that would be the case in most situations

Great information. Thanks

Lmao come on bro , the pulley is what 15-20 bucks … Jesus

Damage is already done to the bearing once it starts making noise. The balls and the race area have wear and pitting which you hear when it rotates under belt tension. Adding grease only masks the problem temporarily…

Probably he replaced the pump but the noise is still there, so he covered his ass by greasing the bearings so customer will be Happpppy 😃

Nah just being cheap he really said maintenance 😂😂

Look at this guy telling everyone what most skaters could've told ya. ;)

I just replaced 2 bearings on tensioner pullies on different vehichles..The pulling were $50 plus dollars each so I did get 2 bearings $5 dollars each.. I just used a large socket to hammer the old bearings out..1 good hit followed with a tap tap and it was out.Same thing to install new bearings.. No press needed..

Well if its dry that means the grease has come out and dirt will get in and grind down the bearings until it wobbles itself off and fucks something more expensive up.

GM is renowned for having bad tensioners that make noise. I have replaced them and had them making noise the next day.

This is definitely a short term fix. Id suggest pushing the bearing out and upgrading to a good name brand bearing like Timken.

I do my own car maintenance and for friends occasionally. I'd never leave in a noisy bearing. All that does is buy time, how much is always a gamble. I'm also a maintenance technician and we change bearings often. Best to put a new bearing in something, the more work to reach the bearing the less reason to not press a new one on there.

I tried to do that for my Mercedes, they still squeaked. I replaced one at a time. One left to replace, and it still squeaks. Hopefully when I replace that last one, it finally quits squeaking.

brothers, do this for the first time when you buy the tensioner pulley, even if it is new. the bearing has very little poor quality grease. so, yes, I confirm this video 100%. quality information.🤙👍

Thought that was a skateboard wheel with a bearing for a sec lmao was so confused

Rust preventative maintenance liquid? I saw video they held hammer over it and power of physics it has does make power cloud sound wave blanket

I would normaly change the whole thing, but one day when I went to the auto parts the new pulley was plastic! I went to the bearing company and just replaced the bearings in my factory machined pulleys

If it dries up, a shop sells a new one so it doesn't come back in a month complaining. You can get the part and put it on yourself if you're like that. If you have all day and everyday, keep lubing it, but not to excess.

Make it look easy but opening those don’t always go smooth but thanks for the red n tacky grease

Watched this and I literally just did the two uppers in my driveway in 30s and took A LOT of noise away!!

Hack job. Once a bearing starts making noise metal damage has begun, and adding grease does not remove the damage. Also way too much grease added. In a tiny high speed sealed bearing like that, the excess grease has no where to go and so it overheats the bearing and breaks the grease down. Also if you mix two different types of grease it causes bad chemical reactions that will cause ruin. So randomly stuffing grease into noisy bearings is just setting you up for a catastrophic failure, and while it might make it quieter for a while, it probably won't actually extend the life by very much, and gives you a false sense of security because it's not making noise, meanwhile the grease is filled with metal particles from the wearing bearing and acting like grinding compound, until it wears badly enough it falls off and strands you, and possibly destroys your timing cover at the same time. And remember, if you spend the $20 on a new idler, it will probably last another 10 years, where this might last a few days weeks or months, and is just a bad investment in time and labor. If I caught a mechanic doing this to my vehicle, I would demand a refund and take it to a competent mechanic. And I say this a a diesel/industrial mechanic with training lubrication technology, and a lot of experience with proper bearing lubrication in various situations.

I would recommend watching a few bearing videos, brineling and spalling, which you would undoubtedly find in this ball bearing, are going to tell you why it’s failing, packing that bearing only extended it’s life temporarily, it will fail long before a new replacement would have.

I'm sorry that's not regular maintenance, PM's are replacing them. Only in a pinch or in an emergency to get it home. Spend the $90 to get the set with belt kit is a good practice. Once the seal is removed that bearing will dry out faster and seize.

As a bearing salesman let me shine a little light on this situation. Yes if you are extremely careful sometimes you can re pack these bearings, that one looks like a 6203 2rs it’s a fairly common bearing used in multiple applications from overhead doors to lawn mowers and even blenders. But listen carefully in the video he say it had just started squeaking and did not have any wobble in the inner race. That bearing could be greased and may go for a little while longer however if your bearing has any wobble at all in the inner race just buy a new one it’s only 6 bucks.

Sometimes time is gold, and buying a 10 dollar pulley is just 10 bucks.

Time is money. This Costs you time AND money to go back in and replace this thing the second time after it fails. Do it right the first time and you won’t have a problem.

Yes, you can do that on a dry bearing because I’ve done it and again as long as you have no pits in the bearing

I thought about using skateboard bearings myself lmao

If you were a skateboarder as a kid you probably already knew this trick ;)

As long as you catch it in time you can save them for sure.

The question is, how did you charge him? Did you charge him extra labor, if so how much? Seems scamish imo. New pulleys come in component kits, usually much cheaper than buying the individual components by themselves.

There no pressure on the bearing so of course it’s going to feel fine. And also because you took the bearing seal off it’s probably not going to seat properly and let more dirt and water in.